Marrama Elementary School

Marrama Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school in DENVER, Colorado, operated by School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. The school hosts 547 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so Marrama Elementary School sits 44% bigger than that benchmark.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 90,471 students; Marrama Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Marrama Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Black, 10% Asian, 5% White, 4% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Denver County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Marrama Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 14.8%; this one delivers 18.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Denver County shows median household income runs about $94,718, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Denver County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), Marrama Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marrama Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 19.3%.

Marrama Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 4%: 524 students in 2018 compared to 547 in 2025.

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